Abstract：With the continuous penetration of digital culture, digital games have evolved into hybrid media that integrate social interaction, emotional experience, and platform mechanisms. As the boundaries between virtual and real, play and everyday life become increasingly blurred, the originally autonomous structure of the “magic circle” has lost its clarity. Players gradually lose control over the boundaries of gameplay and find themselves trapped in a state of context collapse. Based on participatory online observation and in-depth interviews with 19 players, this study identifies three types of context collapse: conflicts in visibility logic, conflicts in role performance, and conflicts in emotional norms. In response, players engage in boundary reconstruction through practices such as technical disconnection, social adjustment, affective withdrawal, and the rebuilding of the magic circle. These include using invisibility features to reduce social exposure, adjusting interaction frequency to renegotiate relational boundaries, emotionally detaching to alleviate psychological pressure, and reshaping gameplay experiences to regain autonomy and immersion. Such practices of contextual repair not only serve as coping mechanisms for social stress but also represent a form of soft cultural resistance. By actively managing visibility and identity boundaries, players achieve partial restoration of collapsed contexts and construct a dynamic balance in boundary negotiation within digital culture, thus enabling more effective governance of social boundaries in gameplay. The analytical framework of “context collapse—contextual repair” offers a new perspective for understanding how individuals resist platform discipline and actively reconfigure media use boundaries in highly mediated environments.
何建平, 贾晓乐. “游戏应属于谁”：平台游戏中的情境崩溃与边界修复实践[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2025, 42(4): 52-62.
HE Jian-ping, JIA Xiao-le. Who Owns the Game： Context Collapse and the Practice of Boundary Repair in Platform-Based Games. , 2025, 42(4): 52-62.
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